Root j-b-l ج ب ل
The root j-b-l (ج ب ل) occurs 41 times in the Qur'an, the 235th most frequent of its 1,642 roots. It appears in 39 verses across 33 of the 114 surahs, as 2 lemmas (dictionary headwords).
At a glance
| Occurrences | 41 ● |
|---|---|
| Rank among 1,642 roots | 235th ● |
| Verses containing it | 39 ● |
| Surahs containing it | 33 of 114 ● |
| In Meccan / Medinan surahs | 35 / 6 ~ |
| Early Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 5 ~ |
| Middle Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 13 ~ |
| Late Meccan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 17 ~ |
| Medinan (Cairo 1924 periods) | 6 ~ |
| As verbs / as nouns and adjectives | 0 / 41 ● |
| Spread across surahs (DP, normalized) | 0.613344 (0 even, 1 concentrated) ~ |
| First occurrence | 2:260 ● |
Counts from the Leeds Quranic Arabic Corpus v0.4 root field. Period and Meccan/Medinan splits depend on a classification; the spread measure is one of several (Numbers).
Lemmas
| Most common form | Part of speech | Count | Surahs |
|---|---|---|---|
| ٱلْجِبَالُ | noun | 39 | 32 |
| جِبِلًّا | noun | 2 | 2 |
● Grouped by the corpus's lemma field. Every lemma is in the lemma-frequencies table.
Most frequent written forms
- ٱلْجِبَالُ 11×
- ٱلْجِبَالِ 7×
- ٱلْجِبَالَ 6×
- جَبَلٍ 3×
- وَٱلْجِبَالُ 3×
- وَٱلْجِبَالَ 2×
- ٱلْجَبَلِ 1×
- لِلْجَبَلِ 1×
- ٱلْجَبَلَ 1×
- كَٱلْجِبَالِ 1×
● Surface forms, with attached prefixes and suffixes.
Where it concentrates
- al-A'raf 4× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- Hud 2× · 1.043 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Nahl 2× · 1.085 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Shu'ara 2× · 1.517 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Muzzammil 2× · 10.05 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Naba' 2× · 11.561 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Baqarah 1× · 0.164 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Ra'd 1× · 1.172 per 1,000 word-units
- Ibrahim 1× · 1.205 per 1,000 word-units
- al-Hijr 1× · 1.527 per 1,000 word-units
● The ten surahs with the most occurrences, with the rate per 1,000 of each surah's word-units.
Roots it keeps company with
- س ي ر s-y-r 5 shared verses
- ر ا ي r-a-y 8 shared verses
- ا ر ض a-r-ḍ 9 shared verses
- ج ع ل j-ʿ-l 5 shared verses
- ك و ن k-w-n 12 shared verses
- س م و s-m-w 5 shared verses
- ا ت ي a-t-y 5 shared verses
- ا ل ه a-l-h 11 shared verses
~ Ranked by log-likelihood of sharing a verse, one association measure among several (explorer).